tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63684940550638017652024-02-19T07:59:43.087-03:30I BLOG BECAUSE I CANQuality Canadian Edutainment Delivered Fresh Every Day!E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.comBlogger611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-33783265209263199602010-02-27T23:11:00.003-03:302010-02-28T00:02:26.929-03:30Calling Out TSN... Again!I know that the Olympics are option one-through-100 right now for coverage on TSN.ca.I get that. I wasn't looking for front page coverage.But when I flip to the MMA page of "Canada's Sports Leader," I was hoping to see some coverage of Victoria native Sarah Kaufman.Without a mention of the tiny terror on Monday or Tuesday, I took to passing along a link to one of the two feature-length pieces I E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-84859824007090914852010-02-25T13:56:00.005-03:302010-02-25T14:16:05.626-03:30Long Overdue UpdateWell, I've moved again...No, we're still in Victoria, but my MMA writing talents have jumped ship one last time.MMA Madness is now my home, and we're set to do some big things. I know everyone says that, and I've said it before about every site I've worked with, but this time it actually is different and will come true.A collection of colleagues I respect and admire have banded together to form aE. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-84003866079795853532010-02-13T03:38:00.006-03:302010-02-13T03:58:09.473-03:30Time for the Oly... Oh Wait... I Don't CareCall me un-Canadian.Call me a grinch.Call me whatever fun curse word you're currently favoring these days.The Olympics are a joke to me.Don't get me wrong - I'll watch some stuff here and there, but as a whole, I just don't get it.Actually, I think the problem is that when I look at the Olympics, I basically see the same things that take place throughout the sporting year.With the exception of E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-70522057317466228932010-02-09T17:49:00.006-03:302010-02-09T19:28:49.651-03:30Mindboggling: People Born After Appetite for Destruction was ReleasedSo we're in the warehouse last night, you know, picking produce, and the initial guitar strums from "Paradise City" come over the radio.I immediately crank it up, start playing air guitar and wonder why the guys I'm working with aren't doing the same.One has an easy excuse: he's from India. In the two or three years he's been here, there are more important things for him to learn than the sonic E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-47939079053221386652010-02-07T21:44:00.003-03:302010-02-07T21:55:29.277-03:30If You've Got Time to Put on Your Lacey Red Thong...You've got time to put on real pants and shoes!No, I'm not talking about the lovely Ms. Alyssa Milano, pictured here with her red thong whale tail showing to illustrate the term and so I don't have obvious porn as the picture on my somewhat family friendly site.I'm talking about the absolute ghetto child we (Sarah and I) saw yesterday morning as we went to the grocery store. I understand that E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-91599052410724974152010-01-18T06:34:00.003-03:302010-01-18T06:44:05.633-03:302010: The Year I Begin to Crush It!Regardless of everything, you need to read the book pictured above.My man Josh Nason of Ring, Ropes and Cage has become my personal Yoda when it comes to expanding my knowledge-base and understanding of the world I'm trying to break into, and I have to say that as good as On Writing was, Crush It!, well, crushed it.This book is going to change my life, and I say that without any asterisks, E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-20141003239383827002010-01-17T14:37:00.003-03:302010-01-17T15:14:04.051-03:30Things I Learned This Week1. Write for Love, Let the Money Come LaterAfter spending a good number of months building up a readership at a couple different sites, I put them on the back burner to pursue a job with Heavy.com for the lone reason that they were going to pay me.Ten weeks later, I was dropped via email... without ever receiving a check. I've been assured it's coming, and take solace in the fact that the E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-53347716873720523742010-01-16T12:54:00.004-03:302010-01-16T13:05:36.683-03:30The Most Awesomest Show on TVTwo bones to pick today.The first one - how did you people who call yourselves my friends allow me to go years without watching How I Met Your Mother?Honestly... you don't do that to a person, and certainly not someone you seem to like.For four seasons, I spent Monday nights flipping between crappy football games and the same version of House - you know, the one with the crazy doctor, mystery E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-68739806472804970112010-01-15T13:13:00.004-03:302010-01-15T13:45:57.692-03:30But I'm The Blueprint / I'm Like the Map For'emBack at you for the first time in a little bit - and I promise I'm going to try and be here a lot more regularly moving forward - and time to call out everyone.Yeah - everyone.At some point, we're all guilty of not giving credit where credit is due, and it's become something that really grinds my gears like Peter Griffin.We're all so quick to attack and criticize; calling people out for their E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-52923224835097423522010-01-12T21:06:00.004-03:302010-01-12T21:11:56.298-03:30Time to Hit the Awesome Button AgainRemember how in my last post I told you I was supposed to talk to my new editor and find out my future with Heavy.com this week?Well, today I found out, in the form of an email.It was thoroughly not awesome.Guess who's got two thumbs and is no longer writing at Heavy.com? Yup, this guy.Budgetary cutbacks are the reason I'm being given, though I know there was a whole lot more to it than that. My E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-44418579535403518422010-01-06T01:32:00.003-03:302010-01-06T02:00:05.886-03:30One Step Forward, One Step Sideways, and One Step into the Poor HouseToday was supposed to be a momentous day, one filled with positive news, answers to very important questions and unbridled enthusiasm about the future.In the end, I got positive news, a pat on the back and asked to reschedule the answers to very important questions, and a karmic reminder that unbridled enthusiasm about the future should be discouraged at all times.The moral of the story: driving E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-5150945186280224792009-12-24T20:08:00.004-03:302009-12-24T20:15:14.215-03:30It's Christmas... Not HalloweenJust because the guy playing Santa Claus at the mall and his various "helpers" get to put on costumes and play dress-up this time of year, doesn't mean that normal, everyday people should follow suit.We have a "holiday" for that, Halloween.If you missed it, too bad; there are no do-overs.Someone needs to have told that to the mid-20s girl Sarah and I just saw walking down the street as I drove E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-31329322164752853372009-12-16T15:26:00.004-03:302009-12-16T15:35:21.472-03:30I So ConfusedD'you know what my new favorite thing this holiday season is?Constant job postings for positions that either (a) don't exist or (b) aren't being hired until 2010.Nothing like giving a guy a glimmer of hope only to kick him in the crotch shortly thereafter.The same restaurant here in Victoria has officially posted - on the Services Canada Job Bank - the same position three different times in the E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-45901520248396768602009-12-05T14:39:00.003-03:302009-12-05T14:58:56.154-03:30Oprah Quits... But Not Until Next YearIn all honesty, I've been meaning to write this one for some time.As many of you know, Oprah has announced that she is ending her show to concentrate on other projects. As you also know, the announcement came with a "at the end of next year" attached to the back end.Basically, Oprah is giving everyone ample warning that she will be leaving, so they can get their lives in order to carry on withoutE. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-76905791144517869502009-12-02T20:06:00.003-03:302009-12-02T20:22:10.972-03:30Tiger Woods: Great at Golf, Stupid at LifeEveryone else in the world is talking Tiger right now, so I might as well chime in too.Tiger Woods is arguably the greatest golfer to ever play the game.He's the first billion-dollar athlete, has endorsements out the back nine, an impeccable smile and it seems about as much smarts as a sack of marbles.This will not be a lecture about infidelity; the shit happens and that's life. It sucks, I don'tE. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-12454215542870495682009-11-30T23:49:00.003-03:302009-12-01T00:00:46.117-03:30Monday Night RawNo, this isn't a post about wrestling and the WWE.This is an uncensored vent session from the frustrated guy on the other side of the keyboard... consider yourself warned.* * * * * * * *As much as being unemployed sucks, being under-employed sucks more.Starting tomorrow, I'm the newest member of the afternoon shift at Islands West Produce, picking orders in a freezer to be shipped all over the E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-2592516432179008672009-11-29T14:47:00.003-03:302009-11-29T15:10:20.107-03:30Things I Learned This Week1. Post #600How insane is that?This post marks the 600th time I've sat down to share my thoughts with you on something completely random and the fact that we've reached yet another landmark is crazy to me.Not that I didn't think I could actually do it, but really, getting to 600 posts without having taken an kind of massive hiatus in the middle is impressive to me.More impressive is that some of E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-2014442902999218572009-11-27T20:30:00.003-03:302009-11-27T20:54:46.564-03:30Soundtrack of My Life: Down With the KingSong: Down With the KingArtist: Run DMCAlbum: Down With the King (1993)The fact that it's taken so long to get to Joseph Simmons, Darryl McArthur and the late Jason Mizell is ridiculous, considering how constantly I rip on the current state of affair in hip hop and the lack of talent taking up residency sitting at the top of the charts.While their legacy and importance in the music world becomes E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-86301298178441440892009-11-26T17:37:00.003-03:302009-11-26T17:45:04.748-03:30This Is Where I'm Going to End Up...I'm not even joking right now... how sad is that?In all likelihood, I will be taking myself out to every fast food joint in the neighborhood over the next couple of days and dropping off resumes, because it seems that despite a University degree, outstanding communication skills and a wealth of experience, I can't get a goddamn job.Now, it certainly doesn't help that there is the square root of E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-74349027914831261882009-11-25T13:04:00.006-03:302009-11-25T13:20:31.520-03:30Missing: My Wedding Ring (Updated)Sadly, there is no reward because I'm broke and unemployed, but the positive is that if it's found, you'll still get to enjoy my witty banter here on iBlog.If not, there is a distinct possibility that Sarah kills me.I knew I should have followed my man Ty's lead and put it on a necklace that I never take off. Although, I don't wear a necklace and if I did, I'd probably take it off every day and E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-22089283967916562842009-11-25T00:54:00.005-03:302009-11-25T01:31:43.595-03:30Good Day vs. Bad DayIt been a while, I know...Today was supposed to be a good day.When I went to bed last night, the plan was for today to be a productive and meaningful day, as the last few have involved me feeling craptacular about my lack of employment and inability to earn a living doing what I love.Everything started out aces; woke up feeling refreshed, found out I was going to interview rising MMA star Jon "E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-13124888259196741492009-11-19T15:45:00.003-03:302009-11-19T16:06:47.360-03:30Here's to the Straight Sell!There is something to be said about straight-forward, unambiguous marketing and advertising.In all honesty, we need more of it.As entertaining as selling Viagra through a series of vignettes about antiquing gone wild, there is surely a set that wonders what has replaced the excessive exploring for old artifacts in these people's lives and what it has to do with a little blue pill.There aren't E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-37414062923342107932009-11-18T21:34:00.003-03:302009-11-18T22:33:19.229-03:30The Rundown: Cool Dead PeopleThere is this really weird trend I've noticed over the last number of years.Any time a celebrity dies, famous people everywhere suddenly start popping up yammering incessantly about how much they loved So-And-So who just kicked the bucket.Today, we're running down the five most instantly adored and collectively cool dead people.Top 5 Super Cool Dead People 5. Michael JacksonDespite the fact that E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-83710755158746027392009-11-16T19:57:00.002-03:302009-11-16T20:22:39.115-03:30Originality is Dead: I Have Proof!There have been a number of occasions over the two-year run of iBlog where I have slagged Hollywood for their general lack of creativity when it comes to television and films.From everything to horrible reality shows featuring Jackson siblings you don't care about (and may never have heard of before... I'm talking to you Jackie!) or talk show hosts becoming judges on singing competitions (even SoE. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368494055063801765.post-59138942936226991642009-11-14T14:56:00.004-03:302009-11-14T15:12:48.773-03:30Michael Died... Let's Do a Reality TV Show!Pictured are the good old days of The Jackson 5, one of the greatest groups in the history of music.Yes, they were that damn good.You know the one in the front - that's Michael, back before the skin treatments, countless surgeries and prolonged coverage of his death on CNN.But can you name the other four Jacksons?Interestingly enough, most people will probably remember Tito for the sole reason E. Spencer Kytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05510447452210137674noreply@blogger.com5